AN Irish software company, which counts Disney, Netflix and Spotify as clients, is creating 85 jobs in Belfast through the opening of a new office.
Cork-headquartered Teamwork.com is setting up a development and support hub in the city for a new product it is bringing to market. The Belfast office adds to the company's existing locations in Limerick, Barcelona, Amsterdam and Buenos Aires.
The SaaS (Software as a Service) provider, which creates online business applications to make teams around the world efficient and organised, will be hiring 55 developers and 30 technical support staff over the next three years.
The new roles will add over £3.2 million annually in wages to the Northern Ireland economy.
Teamwork.com CEO, Peter Coppinger said the new Belfast office marks an important milestone for the business.
“For a high-growth technology company such as ours, we have to prepare for the future and possible opportunities, especially with all the uncertainty around Brexit. Being in Northern Ireland will ensure we can tap into the great talent pool on offer and access the UK market in the future," he said.
“We’ve started the recruitment process and we have a small team of eight people in place. We’ll be hiring another 20 in the coming months and we’re looking forward to building out the team here. This will be our largest location outside of Cork and we’re excited to build momentum in our Belfast office."
Invest NI has offered £680,000 of support towards the new jobs and chief executive, Alastair Hamilton welcomed the latest addition to Belfast's growing software development sector.
"In the last five years 30 companies have chosen to set up dedicated software development centres here. I am pleased that Teamwork.com has chosen to join this growing number of businesses drawn here by the talent of our people.”
“Teamwork.com has 22,000 customers around the world but with ambitions to grow this further by introducing new products to its portfolio. The new development centre will be key to helping the company achieve this growth," he addded.
